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12 June 2026

Before the Opening Whistle: How Mathematics Shape the Incentives in Group-Stage Matches in the Reformed FIFA World Cup

Following a reform by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), 48 teams will compete for the trophy at the 2026 World Cup, up from the previous 32. On the surface, this promises more matches, more goals, and an even grander football celebration. But what is happening behind the scenes – in the world of incentives and mathematical probabilities? How does the possibility of third-placed teams advancing, or the replacement of goal difference by head-to-head results as the tiebreaker, reshape tactical decisions on the pitch?
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8 June 2026

HUN-REN SZTAKI Exhibited at the ICRA 2026 Conference in Vienna

Researchers from the Institute’s Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence, as part of the rEUman project, exhibited their work at the ICRA 2026 robotics conference, held in Vienna between June 1 and 5, 2026. The robot featured in the demonstration was provided on loan to the laboratory by Universal Robots, a supporter of the project, through its AI Accelerator Kit program.
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30 April 2026

HUN-REN SZTAKI success at IEEE GRSS 2026 Data Fusion Contest

Jamil Ghazal, a first-year PhD student at the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory of HUN-REN SZTAKI, has won the IEEE GRSS 2026 Data Fusion Contest, an international scientific competition. The award-winning work was carried out in collaboration with ELTE; the team members were Ghazal Jamil, András Jung, and Vera Könyves. András Jung and Vera Könyves are Jamil’s PhD supervisors. The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE GRSS) is one of the leading international professional communities in Earth observation, remote sensing, and radar satellite image processing.
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14 April 2026

Balázs Csanád Csáji Opens the Publication Awardees’ Lecture Series at HUN-REN SZTAKI

Last Friday marked the debut of the "Publication Awardees" lecture series at HUN-REN SZTAKI. Of the three Awardees, the first presentation of the series was delivered by Balázs Csanád Csáji on the topic of "Robust Uncertainty Quantification."
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30 March 2026

Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory project concludes with conference presentations

The Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB) programme concluded with a series of professional presentations on Thursday in Budapest, hosted at HUN-REN SZTAKI.
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8 January 2026

NTU and HUN-REN Host Joint Workshop at HUN-REN SZTAKI

The workshop was opened by András Benczúr, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at HUN-REN SZTAKI and Director of the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB) coordinated by HUN-REN SZTAKI.
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9 December 2025

MILAB’s December Meetup Spotlighted Agentic AI

The latest (#14) meetup of the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB), coordinated by HUN-REN SZTAKI, focused on the rapidly emerging “AI Scientist” systems and Agentic AI. Dániel Horváth (HUN-REN / HUN-REN SZTAKI) presented the MIRAI
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10 November 2025

SOCCER Project Marks 24-Month Milestone with Launch of Advanced Security Hub Testing and Enhanced Threat Intelligence Platform

The SOCCER (Security Operation Centres Capacity building for European Resilience) project, a key European initiative co-funded by the European Union, today announced it has reached its 24-month milestone, entering a critical new phase of validation for its innovative cyber security software, the Security Hub. This marks a significant step forward in the project's mission to strengthen Europe's cyber defence capabilities.
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22 October 2025

Quantum and Supercomputing Platform launched with HUN-REN SZTAKI as a founding member

László Palkovics, Government Commissioner for Artificial Intelligence, and Árpád Pikéthy, Head of IBM Hungary, jointly announced the launch of the Quantum and Supercomputing Platform at the 16th Infotér conference. The strategically important Platform, of which HUN-REN SZTAKI is a founding member, aims to place Hungary at the forefront of quantum technology and AI.
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21 October 2025

GreenDIGIT project enters the second phase in Budapest

HUN-REN SZTAKI welcomed the partners of GreenDIGIT in Budapest for the mid-term All Hands Μeeting, where the collaboration reflected on progress, exchanged insights, and aligned on the next steps for the project.
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21 October 2025

A delegation from the French Institute of Budapest Visited HUN-REN SZTAKI

On October 17, 2025, a delegation from the French Institute of Budapest visited HUN-REN SZTAKI to learn about the Institute’s scientific activities and demonstrations.
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15 October 2025

Europe Enters the Exascale Age with New Supercomputer Inaugurated in Jülich

Europe has joined the world’s elite club in supercomputing: JUPITER, the first supercomputer to surpass exaflops of computing power in Europe, will soon be supporting scientific research and the use of AI. At the ceremonial inauguration event, Tamás Máray, Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems at HUN-REN SZTAKI, and a member of the EuroHPC Steering Committee, represented the related domestic initiatives.
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